Health, Education and Retirement over the Prolonged Life Cycle

International Conference
Vienna, November 27 - 29, 2013

Wednesday, 27 November 2013

Opening

Brigitte Mazohl  (President of the Division of Humanities and the Social Sciences, Austrian Academy of Sciences): Welcome
Wolfgang Lutz:  Introduction of Wittgenstein Centre
Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz and Michael Kuhn:  Thematic Introduction on Health, Education and Retirement over the Prolonged Life Cycle

Session: Effects of retirement

Chair: Michael Kuhn

• Ingo W. K. Kolodziej and Pilar García-Gómez
  The Causal Effects of Retirement on Mental Health in Eleven European Countries  PDF
   
• Shinya Kajitani, Kei Sakata and Colin McKenzie
  Occupation, Retirement and Cognitive Functioning PDF

Session: Training, productivity and employment

Chair: Michael Kuhn

• Raymond Montizaan
  Training, HR and Retirement BehaviorPDF
   
• Michele Belloni and Claudia Villosio
  The effect of Lifelong Learning on European older workers’ productivity  PDF

Thursday, 28 November 2013

Keynote

Chair: Michael Kuhn

Andrew Jones

Education and Equality of Opportunity in Health

PDF

Session: Retirement & Pensions (i)

Chair: Gustavo De Santis

• Fabian Kindermann
  Pension Funding and Human Capital  PDF
   
• Markus Knell
  Increasing Life Expectancy and Pay-As-You-Go Pension Systems  PDF

Session: Long-term effects

Chair: Gustavo De Santis

• Govert Bijwaard, Hans van Kippersluis and Justus Veenman
  Education and Health: The Role of Cognitive Ability PDF
   
• Martina Celidoni and Luca Salmasi
  The long-term effect of poverty on obesity, evidence from Europe  PDF

 Keynote

Chair: Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz

Uwe Sunde

Life Expectancy, Education, and Economic Development

Session: Health over the life-course

Chair: Andreas Schäfer

• Hendrik Schmitz and Matthias Westphal
  Short- and medium term effects of informal care provision on health  PDF
   
• Heather Booth, Pilar Rioseco and Heather Crawford
  Demographic differences in the association between social networks and self-rated health in later life  PDF

Session: Retirement & Pensions (ii)

Chair: Andreas Schäfer

• Gustavo De Santis
  (The Almost Ideal way of) Reconciling social and actuarial equity in pension systems  PDF
   
• Tibor Hanappi:
  Retirement Behaviour in Austria: Incentive Effects on Old-Age Labor Supply  PDF

Friday, 29 November 2013

Session: Economic models of the life-cycle

Chair: Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz

• Titus J. Galama and Hans van Kippersluis
  Joint Investment in Education and Health: A Unified Theory of Human Capital Formation
   
• Andreas Schäfer and Alexia Prskawetz
  Inequality, Pollution, and Life Expectancy   PDF

 Session: Disentangling life-cycle developments

Chair: Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz

• Louis Chauvel and Valentina Ponomarenko
  Testing Cohort-Effect Hysteresis with APC Models: Comparing Suicide Rates of Old-Aged in 16 Countries (1980-2010)  PDF
   
• Hans Oluf Hansen
  Survivorship impacts of latent biological heterogeneity and period elements in human mortality   PDF

 Session: Retirement Transitions

Chair: Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz

• Agnieszka Chlon-Dominczak
  Female transition to retirement   PDF
   
• Linda Kridahl
  Retirement and Leisure – A Longitudinal Study Using Swedish Data

Poster Session

• Claudio Deiana: Disability and Labour Market Outcomes: An Empirical Analysis Across Europe
• Patrice De Micco: Minimum Pension Reforms and Early Retirement Behavior: Is There a Gender Bias? The Case of Spain
• Pau Mire and Madelin Gomez: Working beyond age 55 in Spain, 1987-2011
• Alla Ivanova and Elena Zemlyanova: Adult Mortality Differentiation According to Educational Level in Russia    PDF
• Martin Kerndler: The twin hypothesis of education and retirement   PDF
• Katalin Kovács: Health and education as determinants of economic activity in six European countries
• Cornelia Mureşan: Impact of transition to motherhood on educational enrollment
• Valentina Ponomarenko: Scarring in Old Age in Europe and the US: Social Inequality and the Transition to Retirement  PDF
• Monika Riedel and Helmut Hofer: Determinants of the transition from work into retirement
• Pilar Rioseco: The effect of subjective life expectancy on change in expected retirement age over time  PDF
• Gabriel Tati: Differentials in vulnerability and functional capacity among the elderly in the context of prolonged life in Africa

The conference was co-ordinated by Alexia Prskawetz and Michael Kuhn.